The Incredible Hulk: New Hulk TV Series Still in the Works

by Trevor Kimball, June 30, 2011

Though a new Wonder Woman TV series failed to get a greenlight from NBC, a new show based on the Hulk is still in the works. This is in addition to the character appearing in the upcoming Joss Whedon-directed feature film, The Avengers.

Guillermo del Toro is working on the proposed series with former Battlestar Galactica executive producer David Eick.

According to a recent interview with FearNet, del Toro said, “We turned in the outline to ABC about four weeks ago. And then we did a rewrite for ABC on the outline, and now we are lining up the pages.”

He didn’t talk about what direction they’ll be taking with the character but don’t expect a repeat of the 1978-82 Bill Bixby series, The Incredible Hulk. They want to take a unique approach. de Toro noted, “I think so. Or we wouldn’t be trying it. Actually, one of the points of this project early on with Marvel, was ‘We’re going to do this thing different, and here’s how. Are you interested?’ And they were.”

I recently began watching the old t.v. series The Incredible Hulk starring Bill Bixby and i find the acting to be first rate. It was a mistake,in my opinion, that the show was cancelled. It was so realistic in many aspects, except for the man-becomes-hulk idea. In the pilot episode, there is a scene where Dr. Elena Marks is teasing this guy named Jerry who works at the Culver Institute with her if he’d like to run away with her, and when she mentions the Mayo clinic, he says “now your talking”. Bill Bixby’s acting was absolutely first rate in… Read more »

I think for people who never got to watch the increible hulk tv show should have the experience to have some taste of what the old show was like if they are going to have a tv show. why not this time have him find the cure. im not saying it needs to be just like the tv show i miss the old shows and they need to have some thing like it instead of the movies which were ok but they needed to have a little something of the tv show in it to where people who watched it… Read more »

Lou Ferrigno will be involve in the New Hulk TV Series version and there taking out of the Television Show starring Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk, and marvel comic book 1980’s incarnation issue#255 then the Hulk fighting mighty Thor.

Cool go for it.I would like to see the new live -action feature a live -action she-hulk too because she never had a live-action appearance. I think she-hulk should be played by an actress that worksout in the gym. Someone hot beautiful

@Bizzle: The films WERE NOT **** and made tons of money at the box office. Any new TV show based on the Hulk has to be like the source material it’s based on (which the movies, in particular movie #2, got very right) not based on a TV show that’s based on the source material. Please, all of you, pick up the comic book and read it and get a true reading of what the Hulk is.